🚨💰🗣 Football finance expert Kieran Maguire on the Manchester City guilty verdict: “It is unprecedented as far as Premier League history is concerned. We have had clubs get into financial difficulties but they tend to be self-inflicted." “This is, as Richard Masters has said, a systematic attempt to deceive the Premier League, the auditors and to ultimately deceive the employees of the club and the fans as to how the club has been acting on a day-to-day basis through its finances." “I am looking at numbers here, a £900m advantage over a nine-year period." “The average revenue for a 'Big Six' club during that period of time was £2.9bn. So Man City had a one in three advantage. That is huge in terms of wages, transfer fees and negotiating new contracts." “That calls into question the decency and the integrity of everything they have achieved during that period of time." “Anybody who has been reviewing the numbers will have noted Man City's commercial revenue. In the first year of acquisition by Sheikh Mansour, their revenue was £23m." “By 2018, it had increased to £232m. That was spectacular and there were a lot of queries at the time but there was no evidence of a concerted effort to disguise the numbers." “As a result of the hack and the evidence, Man City were clearly falsifying the figures.”